Author's Note: Hi everyone... I'm back, with a new story, one that I actually plan to finish this time. I know I have a lot of stories I've left unfinished but at the moment I just can't go back to them. My muses have left and this is my attempt to get back into the flow of things.

You guys might be wondering why I'm having trouble writing... In April my aunt's cancer took a turn for the worst and the doctors gave her no more than two weeks... She died in half a week on April 15th.

My mom has been taking it really hard and she has every right to, my aunt is the first one of her siblings to pass and she has been with her every day for the past three years. It's hard for her to not have her big sister with her anymore.

I've been trying to stay strong for her but it's really hard because I never actually get the chance to grieve when I do that. So please just bear with me and give me your honest feedback.

Thank you for your patience.

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"Raven," Erik called from the bedroom as she finished brushing her teeth in their adjoining bathroom. She left the room and stood in the doorway.

"Yes?" Her voice wavered a bit and she prayed in her head that he wouldn't be able to hear it. She walked over to the dresser and removed her bathrobe, placing it on the rack beside the bedside table.

"Why are you hiding from me?" His voice was soft but that didn't stop her flinch, she could almost feel the steel in his voice and she didn't like it one bit. Slowly she turned on her heel but kept her gaze down refusing to look at him.

"I'm not hiding, I'm not hiding anything." She hoped he couldn't hear her breathing as hard as she was, or hear how her heart was racing. The bed creaked slightly letting her know that he was moving. A calloused hand grabbed hold of her jaw, dragging her face to him.

"You're hiding, if you weren't you would not be wearing this human guise... Take it off right now." He nearly snarled at her in his anger and she couldn't help the way she sobbed slightly. He let up on his grip, minutely.

'If I do that, he'll find out...' Raven thought. Slowly she started to shake her head.

A hand came down on her naked hip and gripped hard, almost causing her to cry out from the pain of it, but she held back her tears and pain as best she could. "Don't make me say it again." He pronounced each word slowly, taking his time and drawing it out, leaving the threat there and plain to hear.

Raven slowly did as she was told, allowing the heated sensation on her scale like skin transforming back to its natural blue sheen, her hair once again abandoning the blonde shade she favored and taking on its fiery color. They remained quiet as Erik slowly looked over her body, stopping his gaze on her stomach.

She could have just changed her own composition to the point where it looked like her stomach was still flat but she was sure Erik would know the difference and she didn't bother hiding it. For months she had been attempting to hide her pregnancy not knowing how Erik would take it, they had only just left Charles and the others and were starting out on their own. It was too soon for something like this to happen, but this was happing nonetheless.

It had been five minutes and Erik didn't say anything, he even moved away from her a bit, just moving his gaze from her stomach to her face, his placid mask in place. Raven couldn't take it any longer. "Erik," she called but he didn't bother answering, just looking up from her stomach to her face, "say something. Please." She begged.

It was another five minutes before he said anything.

"How long have you known?" Raven resisted the urge to remain tightlipped and answered.

"Two months, but I'm three months along."

"You hid this from me for three months?" Erik's voice once again revealed nothing, it remained soft and so quiet you could hardly hear what he was saying.

"I only just started hiding it; I started to get bigger this month... I didn't know how you would react." Raven resisted the urge to cry though you could tell she wasn't far from it, the emotion rushing through her proving to be hard to control.

Erik didn't say anything for a while before he moved over to the bar in the corner of the room, across from the bathroom. Pouring himself a large amount of whiskey he sat on the edge of the bed, taking a sip before asking his question. "Who's the father, Raven?"

Raven stood there with her mouth wide open, why would he ask her that. Then she remembered he had seen her and Hank when they were making out in the CIA headquarters, he was asking if it went further than that. Raven almost told him the truth, but that would be signing her own death warrant, instead she just went with what she was sure he would want to hear. Hoping her face would stay slightly offended.

"You are." He didn't reply, unless gulping down the rest of his whiskey in a single swallow counts. He hissed as it went down and went to refill his glass, taking his seat once again. He stayed silent but after a while he motioned for Raven to come and stand before him.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean for this to happen." She went to apologize but he just downed his drink and grabbed her hands pulling her closer to him.

"It was bound to happen sooner or later, it just happened sooner than expected." He then surprised her by smirking, "we're making the world a better place, and this child is going to be the future of mutant kind, the next step in our evolution." He even leaned down and kissed her bump a slight kick meeting his lips.

Mystique smirked a little with him and corrected him, "Actually according to the doctor that would be children. I'm having twins." His mouth dropped open in a strange but no less sexy half smile/smirk shocked expression before he grinned.

"Even better..." He cleared his throat and sucked bottom lip into his mouth, "how about we celebrate right now." His smirk turned wicked and he pulled her down into his lap devouring her lips in a strong kiss, a moan falling from her mouth.

That's it...

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I know this is really X-Men heavy right now and I put it in the Avengers section, but I really want the focus to be on the Avengers even though it has X-Men characters just because. The next couple chapters will bring in the Captain and everyone else.